{"id":51,"date":"2002-12-20T02:02:17","date_gmt":"2002-12-20T08:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/12\/20\/four-days-and-a-wakeup-call\/"},"modified":"2002-12-20T02:02:17","modified_gmt":"2002-12-20T08:02:17","slug":"four-days-and-a-wakeup-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/12\/20\/four-days-and-a-wakeup-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Four days and a wakeup call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four days and a wakeup call &#8217;til Christmas and I think I have all my shopping done. Not bad. There is that thing I ordered for my lovely wife that I think won&#8217;t be here in time, but other than that I think I&#8217;ve got a new record. I&#8217;m pretty happy with my purchases overall, but of course Mrs. Bumper causes me the most grief every year. Yet another display of <A href=\"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/waste\/opposites.shtml\">how we differ<\/A> is that she&#8217;s very practical and I&#8217;m&#8230; Well, not. I would be happiest buying her something really useless every year, but I know she would pretend to like it but be disgusted inside. I want to buy her a piece of jewelry suitable for wearing about twice a year.  She wants an air filter for her lawn mower. But my point is that she&#8217;s a little hard to buy for, and it&#8217;s always a compromise.<P> I&#8217;ve heard that people are having a hard time getting in the Christmas Spirit this year. I think it might be due to the short period between Thanksgiving and Christmas this time. Anyway I was having the same problem until <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.krtraining.com\/\">Karl<\/A> sent me this years <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.krtraining.com\/door3.jpg\">card.<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four days and a wakeup call &#8217;til Christmas and I think I have all my shopping done. Not bad. There is that thing I ordered for my lovely wife that I think won&#8217;t be here in time, but other than that I think I&#8217;ve got a new record. I&#8217;m pretty happy with my purchases overall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}